The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 17, 1898, Page 4

THE SAN FRAN FROST CAUSES HEAVY LSS Discouraging Reports Re- ceived From Many Sections. | { Peaches, Apricots and Almonds Nipped by the Cold Wave. Ramage in the Vicinity of Sacramento Placed at a Half Million Dollars. Special Dispatch to The Call STOCKTON, March 16.—The indica- tions are that the heavy frost of last night has been very injurious to al- monds, apricots, early peaches and veg- etables, not only in Stockton and in the immediate vicinity, but throughout the | fruit-raising sections of San Joaquin | County, with the exception of Oak- | dale and the adjacent country, where there was a rain last night of .09 of an inch. An inspection of blossoming fruit there showed that the frost had done no damage whatever. From Acampo, Lodi and XKnights Ferry, however, come reports that of apricots, almonds and early peaches, there will | not be more than half a crop, and pos- | sibly not more than a third. The out- look for grain is fair, but more rain is needed to assure a crop. FRESNO, March 16.—Last night's| frost was one of the most severe of the | season, and has done much damage. It| is reported from all parts of the county | that the apricot crop is ruined. The | peach crop is also badly damaged. Out | of 1000 peach buds taken at random from various parts of the county not | one was found to have escaped the ef- | fects of the cold snap. SACRAMENTO, March 16.—The Sac- ramento Valley was visited by a severe frost this morning. J. R. Runyon, a prominent fruit grower below Court- land, in the valuable river fruit belt, states that the frost has done great | damage to peaches and apricots, if it | has not entirely ruined them, and that pears may have escaped serious injury. On the lower part of Grand Island, also, the orchardists have suffered great loss by the frost. Reports have not been | received from fruit sections outside of the river lands, but it is not probable that they will be so glowing. Mr. Run- yon says the loss in the district fifteen | miles along the river will, he believes, | The Treaty Has amount to $500,000. SAN JOSE, March 16.—Santa Clara | Valley has had two white frosts this | week, thin ice forming in parts of the county each morning. It is not be- | lieved, however, that serious harm has | been done. In some districts the cold may c some apricots to drop, but | orchardists generally do not report se- | rious injury even from the frost of this | morning. i SAN DIEGO, March 16.—The hay and | grain crop is about entirely ruined by dry weather along the coast, while in | the interior valley which had more rain | there will be about half a crop. | LOS ANGELES, March 16.—The heaviest frost of the season occurred last night, and considerable damage | was done in the lowlands. Reports | from Gardena, Vernon and other dis- tricts where vegetables are grown say that the damage was almost complete; in fact, there was a thick formation of | ice in places. Higher up buds which are out rather early this year were | no doubt touched. A high wind which | prevailed Sunday and continued Mon- | day and yes v blasted feed to a considerable extent. The wind also nul- | lified the effect of the late light rain. A | very heavy frost is predicted for to- | night. | RED BLUFF, March 16.—Red Bluff was visited by light frost last night, | but so far as learned it did but little | damage. 1 SONOMA, March 16.—There was a se- | vere frost this morning. Ice formed to the thickness of a quarter of an inch. Apricots were injured, and peaches | have suffered alsoc. MARYSVILLE. March 16.— Crop | prospects in Yuba and Sutter counties have not been so bright in twenty years. The grain acreage is the largest | in many seasons. The fruit crop bids fair to be heav MARTINEZ, March 16.—Contra Costa | experienced the heaviest frost in years this morning. The loss Is heavy. Fruit | buds were nipped and potatoes and to- matoes killed. MONTEREY, March 16.—Heavy rain fell here last night, accompanied by | hail and on_the neighboring mountains | by snow. Farmers report the apricot crop completely spoiled. SAN RAMON, March 16— Last | night's severe frost killed all the al- | monds, peaches and apricots of this valley. ST. HELENA, March 16.—The moun- | tains surrounding this place are cov- | ered with snow, which has fallen to | within_a mile of town. There was a sharp frost this morning, which would | have proved disastrous had it not been | followed by cloudy weather. Rain be- gan falling this afternoon and it is hoped that the crops in this vicinity will be benefited thereby. ADVERTISEMENTS. Pears’ We perspire a pint a day without knowing it ; ought to. If not, there’s | trouble -ahead. The ob- | structed skin becomes sallow or breaks out in pimples. The trouble goes deeper, but this is trouble enough. If you use Pears’ Soap,. no matter how often, the skin is clean and soft and open and clear. All sorts of stores sell it, cspecially druggists; all sorts of people use it. | group of islands 2000 miles from DOLE TREATY ABANDONED ANNEXATION BY RESOLUTION Been Deserted by Its Friends. Conceded That It Could Not Get a Majority in the Senate. Williams of Mississippi Scores the Dole Carpetbag Regime in the House. Epectal Dispatch to The Call. Call Office, Riggs House, Washington, March 16. Business in the legislative session of the Senate to-day was confined to the passage of a few bills, largely of a local character. The national quaran- tine bill was not considered. The Committee on Foreign Relations to-day agreed to recommend that the Hawaiian Islands be annexed by legis- lafion in open session and also agreed upon a joint resolution for the accom- plishment of this purpose, which Sen- ator Davis was authorized to report to the Senate. The following is the text of the joint resolution: Section 1. The Government of the Re- public of Hawaii, having in due form sig- nified its consent in the manner provided by its constitution to cede absolutely and witHout reserve to the United States of America all rights of sovereignty of whatsoever kind in the Hawalian Islands and their dependencies, and to cede to the United States the absolute free owner- ship of all public or crown lands, pub..c buildings or edifices, forts, harbors, mili- tary equipments, all other public property of whatever kind and description beiong- ing to the Government of the Hawaiian Islands, together with every right and appurtenance thereunto appertaining, therefore be it Resolved, That sald cession is accepted, ratified and confirmed and that the sald Hawalian Islands and their dependencies be and they are hereby annexed as part of the territory of the United States, and are subject t0 the sovereign dominion thereof,” and that all and singular, the property and rights hereinbefore men- tioned are vested in the United States of America. Senator Davis submitted with the joint resolution an extended report to the committee. The report states that the joint resolution brings that subject within reach of the legislative power of Congress under the precedent that was established when Texas was an- nexed, that circumstance being referred to at length. The report sa “This important, clear and far-reaching precedent es- tablished by the annexation of the re- public of Texas is a sufficient guide for the action of Congress in the passage of the joint resolution herewith re- ported. = If, in the judgment of Con- gress, such a measure is supported by a safe any wise policy, or is based on a national duty that we owe the people of Hawail, or is necessary for our na- tional development and security, that is enough to justify annexation, with the consent of the recognized Govern- ment of the country to be annexed.” The report then discusses the argu- ment for annexation, declaring that the policy of annexation as it applies to Hawaii has been exceptional and clear since their earliest diplomatic relations with the Government. “From the beginning down to this date the idea and expectation has con- stantly been entertained by the people and Governments of both countries that whenever the conditions should be such as to make annexation of mutual advantage it should be consummated,” it is said. “On the part of Hawalii this purpose has been sustained by two facts: First, that no ruler of Hawaii since the time of Kamehameha 1 has believed that these islands, so tempting to the cu- pidity of commercial powers, could maintain an autonomus government without the support of some great maritime nation. ‘“‘Second—That the rulers of Hawaii, on each occasion when the islands have been threatened with foreign interfer- ence or domestic violence, have at once appealed to some foreign power for help.” The postoffice appropriation bill, which was the subject before the House, was practically lost track of in the debate to-day. As on yesterday, numerous topics were discussed, but to-day for the first time the Cuban- Spanish situation, which had been kept in the background heretofore, forged to the front. Cochran (D.) of Missouri brought the question into the arena, and in the course of the debate that followed Grosvenor of Ohio took occa- sion to deny emphatically the stories afloat to the effect that the President desired an early adjournment of Ccn- gress in order that he might effect a | settlement without Congressional' in- terference. Williams (D.) of Mississippi, in a speech of forty minutes, replied to the speech made by Mr. Tawney yesterday in favor of Hawalian annexation. Wil- liams is a member of the Foreign Af- fairs Committee, and his remarks re- ceived close attention. He directed his attack particularly against the conten- tion of Mr. Tawney that the traditional policy of this Government was not op- posed to annexation. He thought there was no occasion for war, even if it were true that if we should not take the islands some other country would. The idea of the foreign ownership of a our shores had no terrors for him. He said the Hawaiian Islands were now in the control of a ‘“‘carpet bag oligarchy.” The States of the South had undergone a bitter experience with carpet bag government and did not desire to in- dorse it anywhere. The Hawaiian Islands would be a menace instead of a safeguard to the United States. He asked his friends who recently played in the interna- tional chess match against the British Parliamentary team what they would think of accepting a pawn in the mid- dle of the board from their adversaries on condition that they should defend it throughout the game. Great Britain had given a pawn for peace in the shape of Canada. Why should we weaken our already strong position? This country already had a race prob- lem. To take the Hawalian Islands would be to annex another race prob- lem and pay $4,000,000 for the privilege of doing it. In its refiote effects Wil- liams said he regarded the correct set- tlement of this question as more inpor- tant than all the others before the American people. The currency, the coinage question, the tariff question, all important questions in themselves, if settled wrongly could be reconsider- ed and settled right. But the mistaken step of Hawaiian annexation, once taken, could never be retraced. P R S s NEW YORK, March 16.—A special from Grand Island, Nebr., says: The following tele- gram from Henry T. Oxnard, owner of the Nebraska beet sugar factories, was received to- day from New York. > “My investigations here con- vince methatalghough not offici- ally withdrawn, the Hawaiianan- nexation cannot prevail. In view of the certaintyof this it seems to be unnecessary to complicate our Nebraska beet contracts with the Hawailan clause any longer, and I authorize its with- drawal.” Contracts with this clause eliminated are now in the hands of the printer, and some of them will be distributed this after- noon. It is stated on good au- thority that the beet raisers’ or- ganization will have a meeting this week to take action in the matter, and it is believed the or- ganization will accept the con- tract as it stands. Quite a number of individual beet raisers have signified their willingness now to raise beets under contfact with this clause eliminated. Early in the win- ter the Oxnards circulated con- tracts in Nebraska for beet growers to sign, by which they were to pay 50 cents per ton less for beets if annexation was car- ried. The Nebraska farmers re- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + fused to sign these contracts. 4 + + P R O R B O R R R R R R RS R R R R PSRN MANGLED BY - DYNAMITE Two Carpinteria Men Lose Their Lives in an Accident. Attempt to Cut a Piece of Pipe Filled With an Ex- plosive. For Two Years It Had Lain Unused on the Floor of a Black- smith Shop. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. SANTA BARBARA, Cal, March 16.— Charles Sexton and Paul Higgins lost their lives in an accident at Carpinteria this morning. They were at work in a | blacksmith shop repairing a small gas- oline engine. Needing a small piece of | pipe, they took at haphazard from the floor a pipe about five feet long. As it was too long for their purpose, Sexton and Higgins prepared to cut it in two. Sexton took the cutter. and Higgins a sledge hammer, and the latter struck the pipe a hard blow. A loud explosion followed, felling both men and demolishing the building. Cit- izens rushed to the scene at once, only te find Higgins dead, he having been killed instantly, and Sexton outside the | building, whither he ‘had crawled, with | both feet crushed and the fingers torn from his hands. Sexton was calling pit- eously for his mother. He lived for a half hour.after the accident. Higgins’ head was crushed in, and Sexton died from internal injuries. Higgins was 30 years of age, and leaves a widow and two children. He was a son of a prominent citizen of | Carpinteria. Charles Sexton was 27 years of age, single and a son of Jo- seph Sexton cf this county, who is ex- tensively engaged in propagating flow- ers. On an investigation by the Coroner’s Jury it hag been ascertained that the pipe that caused the disaster was load- ed with dynamite. P. C. Higgins, fa- ther of one of the men who was killed, two years ago had a well digger em- ployed to sink wells. He used pipes loaded with dynamite to loosen the sod. It appears that the well digger re- turned all unused material to Higgins’ blacksmith shop, the dynamite pipe be- ing among the lot. This pipe has been on the Higgins premises for all of two years. TWO VICTIMS OF A BOILER EXPLOSION- One Man Killed and Another Seri- ously Injured in a Woodland Disaster. WOODLAND, March 16.—E. J. Baird, a fruit-grower, living three miles north of ‘Woodland, met with an awful death at 5:20 this afternoon. -He was employed as engineer of an irrigating plant at John Martin’s gardens. While in the act of putting straw into a furnace the engine blew up. Baird was hurled sixty yards, his clothing almost torn off, his body badly mangled, many bones broken, and the flesh horribly cooked. John Martin had just dumped a load of straw, and was leaning against the wheel of the engine with his back to the bofler. He was knocked down androlled over half a dozen times before he could get up. His face was bruised, both eyes closed and both arms and back badly burned, but no bones were broken, and he will re- cover and probably not lose his sight. The head of the engine was blown through the air a distance of eighty yards. The engine and trucks were blown forty feet in the opposite direction. Baird leaves a widow and one child. He lived 500 yards from the scene of the dis- aster. rs. Baird heard the explosion, but didn’t know what had occurred until informed of the death of the husband. The evening meal was all ready and on the table awaiting her husband’s return. Martin's aged mother lives 200 yards away on the opposite side of the creek. She heard the explosion and understood its terrible import. She tried to cross the brigge and collapsed. — e SUICIDE AT BAKERSFIELD. ‘William Morrell Borrows a Knife and Plunges it Into His Heart. BAKERSFIELD, March 16.—William Morrell committed suicide tals afternoon near Lange’s saloon by driving a knife into his heart. He borrowed the knife from a friend and walked out of the back door and said, ““Good-by; he-e's the last of old Bill,” and then coo. y ended his life. He had been drinking.” He was 37 BOSS REA SCORED BY THE GANG Case of Satan Rebuk- ing Sin at San Jose. Politician’s Satellites An- gered by His Lack of Tact. By Slandering Jarmen He Has Played Into the Reform- ers’ Hands. . CHARTER CLUB VICTORY. ‘ Given an Opening by Which It Can Expose the Methods of the Opposition. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, March 16.—Interest in the Jarman-Rea suit was unabated to- day. Additional food for talk and thought has been furnished By Rea in the interview in which he sought to es- | tablish the fact that he had made no | direct charge of bribery against ex- Councilman Jarman. Comment is now in great part confined to that part of Rea's statement in which he says that he knows all about the transaction relative to money having been illegally paid to Councilmen to secure the pur- chase by the city of the steam street roller. In the course of the interview had with him Rea in the first instance said that he could not remember the name of the man who told him about this affair. It was, he said, the man who had paid the money to the Councilmen. He declared that he learned from this man every detail of the corrupt trans- action—who had received the money and how much each man got. On being pressed to give the name of the bribe giver he said that even if he remembered it he would not make it public. “You don’t think I want to bowl anybody out,” was the form of his ob- jection. What people are now asking each other are these questions: How comes it that “Jim” Rea, a private citizen, knows all about this bribe giving and CO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1898 ISLAYS A YOUNG GIRL AND ENDS HIS OWN LIFE Murder of a Rancher’s Daughter Followed by the Suicide of Her Slayer. NAPA, distant from here. her father and ride with him. The next that was silla. been riding. Valley. PEOEOEEEPPEEPEPEPRPEPPEOPEPEPPOE® foXofoYoXoXoXoJoJoRoJOJOROROJOIO] RAILWAY WITH BED OF BRUM! How the Point Richmond Branch Will Be Constructed. W hen Completed It Will Appear as One Strong and Last- ing Bridge. Engineers Confident of Overcoming Difficulties in the Tule Region. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. bribe taking. How is it that he was taken into the confi- dence of the bribe giver? Why, Y, | in justice to those Councilmen | deal, does not Rea lay his information | before the proper authorities? Why | does Rea deny that he charged Jarman | with having received a part of this) money and yet say ne thinks Jarman | got some of it, if Rea has knowledge of | all the facts, which he claims he has? These are some of the questions that the political boss may be asked to an- swer when the case against him is | brought to trial. 3 Rea is not only being worried over his latest slip of the tongue by thefact that he has given the good government ad- | vocates a club, but his friends are using any but complimentary language | of him and to him. Those who have chided him most harshly are Paul P. Austin, one of the “‘gang’s” candidates for the appointing board, and Johnnie Mackenzie, the first lieutenant of the boss. The latter is particularly bitter in his arraignment. In view of an episode of the recent past Satan rebuking sin would be but | 2 mild comparison to make with Mac- | kenzie rebuking Rea. It is not so many weeks ago that Mackenzie became the | author of the following: “The gang has never been beaten out, and The Call will make a bad break if it jumps on the boys. We never let up on a man when he jumps the traces. As an instance look at the sign on the Ruckers’ store.” From this it will be seen that neither the boss nor his leutenant has much ground for complaint against the other. And these are the two men who are | credited with being the most astute | politicians of Santa Clara County, and | who are actually in control of both the government machinery in the city of San Jose and the county of Santa Clara. These two men whose power has come most largely from their ability to slander and to terrorize decent men have been allowed through the indif- ference of the people to administer the city’s affairs; to drive honorable men | out of business; to put corrupt men into office; to force capitalists, investors and home seekers to shun this garden spot; to stagnate business, and last, but most important of all, to increase the tax levy of the city from 80 cents on the $100 to $140 on the $100. It is these men, acknowledged leaders | of the element known as ‘“the gang,' who are now seeking, by the cowardly and insidious methods to which they have become accustomed, to defeat the establishment of good and economical | government in San Jose. They have caused numberless so-called independ- ent candidates to enter the field in the hope that this will so divide the votes that some at least of the Charter Club candidates will be defeated. Every voter who desires a change from ‘“gang” rule to a business admin- istration of the city’s affairs, who pre- fers honest to corrupt methods, who wants a low instead of an extortionate tax rate, who wants to see San Jose invaded by investors and home seckers instead of infested by boodlers and cor- ruptionists will vote the New Charter Club ticket straight ffom top to bot- tom. STORY OF MONDAY'S CLASH AT NANCY. Official Version of the Recent Fight- ing Between French and Germans. METZ, March 16.—According to the of- ficial version of Monday’'s incident at Nancy, when a German captain of the Customs Guards and one of his subordi- nates are reported to have crossed the frontier and advanced fifteen yards upon French sofl, the chief frontier surveyor, . Glese, was officlally conversing with French mining officlals on_German soil when he was stoned by a French work- man. The latter’s comrades then crowded upon German territory, using abusive language and throwing stones. At this juncture the frontier inspector arrived, and, seeing the threatening atti- tude of the French, put his gun to his shoulder. At this the French withdrew and the original assailant was arrested by the French police. Pioneer Woman Dead. SAN JOSE, March 16.—Mrs. Catherine B. Schell, a pioneer resident of this county, died here té-day. She was 75 of age and hailed from San Jose, | years old and a native of New York. where, it is said, his people reside. He | The deceased here for forty- was a blacksmith by '_mdgl 2 F six years. g raaagne e B l STOCKTON, March 16.—When the Marshall Pass route of the Denver and who were not parties to the corrupt | Rio Grande Railroad was completed | the success with which the engineers mastered the problems confronting them surprised the world. ‘While the difficulties are widely different in the construction of the Point Richmond route, they are none the less complex. The completion of the line may not awaken such applause from laymen, but the world of civil engineers will regard it as a triumph for their profes- sion. Only those who are familiar with the features of the tule and reclaimed lands lylng by the route between Stockton and the other terminal of the branch can appreciate the difficulties in the way of establishing a permanent roadbed across this treacherous sec- tion. It seems impossible to obtain ard pan on which to operate. If plies could be embedded in solid earth even ten feet below the surface a part of the difficulty would be solved; but, according toc old-timers more familiar probably with the changeable nature of the levels than are the engineers them- selves, no reliance can be placed on the permanency of any grade built solely on the surface. = : Stripped of all technical explanations it seems that the heights of the land as compared with the sea level are ex- ceedingly fickle, being made so, as far as can be estimated by laymen, from currents of water very near the sur- face. An illustration vouched for by Oscar Marshall, who has hunted and fished over the territory for many years, will probably best make the phe- nomenon plain. Chinese gardeners who had a tract of land adjacent to a slough concluded %o try irrigation, their land having become very dry. To this end they excavated the small levee and put in a small water gate, the top of which was made to sit about three inches above the water marks. On leaving at night they closed the gate and were dum- founded the next morning to find that the top of the gate sat nearly two feet below their garden. There was not a crack in the ground, or anything other than the gate and frame work to indieate that the land had changed al- titude. A few days thereafter the top of the gate again marked the water surface. So far as can be learned the conclu- sions of the engineers are that the roadbed must be established much after the manner of jetty work. The base of the work will be upon brush, cut and laid in cradle form. Into this sand and some mixture calculated to salid- ify the formation will be placed. Piling will be used, but the weight of the line will not be dependent on the piles, which will apparently have more the effect of an anchorage than supports. The worfk must necessarily proceed slowly, as the brush must be sunk as far as possible by heavy weights. The broad base of the grade will give the regular grade a base of perhaps two times the width of the surface lines. Ample calculation will be made for the settling process. The composition of the grade as built must necessarily partake largely of rocking, giving weight and permanency. The line as it will be completed will appear as one vast bridge, strong and lasting, but without suspension, gird- ers or supports. PROJECTED SEWER SYSTEM. Improvement to Be Made at the Sali- nas Sugar Factory. SALINAS, March 16.—The Spreckels Sugar Company will soon begin the con- struction of a perfect sewer system at its sugar factory and townsite property. When completed it will be one of the finest and most complete systems in the State. Many bids have already been re- ceived by Superintendent W. C. Waters for the construction of the line. but it will be the first of next week before the matter is settled. The main sewer will run adjacent to all the factory buildings, but at a depth of seventeen feet below the surface of the ground, and will be of a_style known as a eircular ditch, built of masonry. The sewer of the townsite will be of 24-inch pipe. The whole sys- tem will contain about 17,000 feet of pipe, and will empty into the Salinas River. March 16.—James Jackson arrived in Napa City this evening from the upper portion of the county, bringing news of a double trage- dy which occurred this afternoon in Shiles Valley, some twenty miles Mr. Sausilla, a rancher residing this morning was in St. Helena, accompanied by his daughter Victorine, a young lady 17 years of age. In the afternoon they started to return to their home. Shortly after their departure Jplius Bahn, a laborer by occupation, hired a horse and buggy from a livery stable ceeded upon the road leading to Chiles Valley. When about ten miles from St. Helena Bahn overtook Mr. Sausilla and his daughter and re- quested that Miss Sausilla get out of the vehicle in which she was with The young lady did so, and the two rigs proceeded on the road, but soon separated. learned of the young couple whom Mr. Sau- silla had left together on the road was the finding of the body of Vic- torine Sausilla in the carriage, whiich was standing, with the horse hitched and uninjured, at the gate leading to the premises of Mr. Sau- Miss Sausilla had apparently been shot with a pistol. One mile back toward St. Helena from the home of Miss Sausilla the body of James Bahn was found lying in the road, where he had evidently committed suicide after killing the girl with whom he had Bahn had lately been employed by a man named Sierers in Chiles The motive for his crime and suicide is not known, but it is presumed that he was in love with the young woman. Mr. Sausilla and family lived in Napa for a number of years and lately moved from here to Chiles Valley. foJojololojoJooJofoJoJooJooJoJoJokol | | | in Chiles Valley, and pro- CEEOCEEEEPCREUPEECPUPIPNEPEPRECEPE® GAMBLERS T0 BE EXPELLED Prompt Action Taken by Mayor Land of Sac- ramento. Every Game in the Capital City Ordered Closed by To- Night. Evidence That the Present Regime Does Not Approve a “Wide Open” Policy. Special Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, March 16.—Mayor Land, true to the trust reposed in him by the people, and Chief of Police Dwy- er, in the fulfillment of the expectations of his many friends, have ordered every gambling hall to close, and before to- morrow night, it is safe to say, there will not be a single instance where the laws of the State and ordinances of the | city are violated. Those who were first inclined to the belief that the Mayor and Chief were not determined to carry out and sustain the laws of the land against gambling are beginning to think that they counted too soocn upon the claim of the Mayor’s enemies that his election would simply mean a ‘“wide- open town.” Mayor Land is made of different clay, and, while he is inclined to be most tolerant and conservative upon all matters affecting the gambling fraternity and those who are opposed to it, he will not sanction anything that will bring discredit and shame upon his administration. Until the gamblers themselves cease to boast of their hold upon the Mayor and until they are brought to a realization of the fact that they cannot parade the streets and openly defy the authorities, it is safe to say that not another card will be turned in Sacramento for many a day. At no time in the history of the Cap- ital City has there been a Mayor who gave so much time and attention to the interests of the municipality as Mayor Land has given, and those who calcu- lated upon him playing fast and locse with any matter of public interest have entirely misunderstood his character and underestimated his standard of honor. INCENDIARY CAUSES A CARPINTERIA BLAZE:| Criminal Methods Employed to Pre- vent the Sinking of 0il Wells. SANTA BARBARA, March 16.—Colonel Russell Heath of Carpinteria is experi- encing considerable trouble in sinking ofl wells. A short time ago some one dropped a steel plug into his 400-foot well, which compelled a cessation of work. Early this morning the derrick house over a deep well in process of being bored on Colonel Heath's place at Carpinteria was destroyed by fire. The fire was evidently of incendiary origin. Residents of Car- pinteria Valley are opposed to exploring for oil, deeming it against the Interests of the valley, and from this cause may have come his troubles. ELECTRIC ROAD FROM HAYWARDS TO DIABLO- Surveyors Selecting ap Route for a Line to the Summit of the Mountain. MARTINEZ, March 16.—A surveying party of eight men, with A. Allison, for- merly of the Southern Pacific, in charge, is now engaged in surveying a route for the electric road which is to run from Haywards to Danville, with its ultimate terminus at the summit of Mount Diablo. The branch road will connect at San Ramon and run to Livermore. Grading ‘will soon commence. stz ien A Lowers a Track Record. NEW ORLEANS, March 16.—N. L, Sed- don’s colt Cherry Leaf hung up a new record for the track in the sevan furlong handicap to-day, covering the distance in 1:27%. Weather fine; track fast. Six furlongs, selling—Minnie Weldon won, Nannie Dunne second, P third. Time, 1315, 34 Miiohed Tsllx ’é’;""""’ selllng—dBertsa Nell wor, ole * Simmons _second, c mg:‘ T‘llme. 1“1‘5% A ousteruwlvq e mile, selling—Tranby won, 8 }15{1’2” second, mgfi. Testythfl-‘é. }'.[I‘le::%, “Handicap, seven furlongs—ch won, Globe II second, abcur!ertryulfier?lf Time, 1:27%. One mile and a sixteenth—Carrie Lyle won, Jack of Hearts second, third. " Time, 1:49. SR naeos Little Seven furlongs—Alamo _won, lB:mmble second, Clara Bauer third. Time, e ——————————————————————————————————————————— The fac-simile signature of is on every wrapper of CASTORIA, (POWDERLY IS CONFIRMED Favorable Vote the Senate After a Sharp Debate. in Mr. Hanna Declares That the Appointee Made No Bargain. — . Ohio Senator Had Preferred Another for Commissioner of Immigration. The Speclal Dispatch to The Call. 7 IT Call Office, Riggs House, ‘Washington, March 18. T. V. Powderly was confirmed as Commissioner of Immigration in the Senate in executive session to-day by the vote of 43 to 20. Senator Chandler was the only Republican who cast his vote against confirmation, while a large number of Democrats voted for Mr. Powderly. The vote was preceded by a rather sharp debate, in which the question whether Mr. Powderly had made a trade with the Republicans in the last campaign was discussed quite freely. Senators Teller and Stewart attacked Mr. Powderly’s record on the financial question, and Senator Stewart read a letter from Mr. Powderly, written dur- ing the campaign of 1892, in which he had declared his adherence to the cause of bimetallism and denounced those of the labor element who had aligned themselves on the Republican side as rendering themselves liable to the charge of being made the subjects of bribery. Mr. Stewart contended that Mr. Powderly had placed himself in exactly the same category in which he had previously sought to place others by his course in the campaign of 1896. Senator Hanna made a brief speech, in which he asserted that Mr. Powder- 1y’s support of the Republican ticket in the late campaign was not the re- sult of any collusion or bargain. “Mr. Powderly,” he said, “came to us of his own accord and without any so- licitation on our part. We did not go after him and we did not promise any- thing.” Furthermore, Mr. Hanna said he was not originally a supporter of Powderly for the position of Commissioner of Im- migration, having already a candidate for the office. This fact ought to be sufficient evidence, Mr. Hanna thought, to convince the most skeptical that there had been né bargain that Pow- derly should have the office as the re- sult of his services in the campaign. Chandler made another speech in op- position, reading protests from labor organizations and declaring that the Republican party could not afford to appoint to so important an office the man distasteful to the labor elements. Fairbanks closed the debate in Pow- derly’s behalf, defending his record in the office and his character as a man. He said that Powderly had demon- | strated by several months of service | his fitness for the office. 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